Here's the history of U.S. employment gain and loss over the last 15 years.
TOTAL EMPLOYMENT (thousands)
loss 1981-82 - 2,761
gain 1982-90 +21,229
loss 1990-92 - 1,394
gain since 1990+12,150
total since 1981 +29,224
What's the trend, and what's the cycle?
Doug:
At 12:07 PM 11/29/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug: wouldn't the relevant statistic require comparing job creation with
"labor force creation?"
Doesn't change a thing; they two have grown pretty much in line for the
last umpteen decades. If they hadn't, unemployment would be in a secular
At 1:08 PM 11/29/96, Tom Walker wrote:
So in part we're comparing apples and oranges. But perhaps Doug could
comment a bit on the rigour of the BLS's definitions of "economic" and
"non-economic" part-time employment. For example, in computing official
unemployment statistics, "discouraged
At 12:08 PM 11/29/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is another red herring, Doug. Right-wing, reactionary, corporate
politics comes more often in the modernist than the "social
constructionist" form.
Your insistence on pinning all the evils of capitalism on post-modernism
(or social
O.K., Doug, you win, U.S. workers have never had it so good ;-) It's just us
deluded, apocalytic ignoramuses who are imagining a fundamental and
frightening change for the worse. But there it is, clear as day, in the
selective statistics you present: everything is under control; nothing can
go
Doug Henwood wrote,
The rigor of the definition is irrelevant to judging the trend, as is the
level of aggregation, since this has been a discussion about the nature of
"work" in general. Aronowitz DiFazio said, for example, that "most" of
the jobs created in the early 1990s have been
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Even such a normal law as the "average" rate of profit is in
shambles. The monopoly capitalists do not accept an "average"
profit. They do not accept that for the capitalist system to
function, profit must be "shared" throughout the system or extended
reproduction cannot take place without grave
At 5:45 AM 11/29/96, Tom Walker wrote:
Yes, Rifkin manages to insert a dollop
of utterly absurd hyperbole -- I don't know if that makes him a charlatan or
just a self-absorbed story-teller.
Hyperbole is his favorite mode - it attracts attention, as well as funding.
He knows exactly what song to
At 11:45 AM 11/29/96, Tom Walker wrote:
O.K., Doug, you win, U.S. workers have never had it so good ;-) It's just us
deluded, apocalytic ignoramuses who are imagining a fundamental and
frightening change for the worse. But there it is, clear as day, in the
selective statistics you present:
Doug Henwood wrote,
In its latest Employment Outlook, the OECD found no secular increase in
part-time employment...
- snip, snip -
...Here are the part-time stats for the U.S., also one
of the least regulated labor markets in the First World. The label "econ"
means part-time for economic
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The sphere to
which I allude is not only the Beltway scene, much beloved
by followers of this list, but also the hinterlands. Has
anyone been aware of JR involved in any politics -- even
political statements -- other than book-tour stuff? If
Social constructionists come in so many forms
From the latest Rachel's weekly newsletter, titled Political Science:
On the other hand, in the arena of environmental regulation, the
same corporations (and their same representatives in Congress)
are working hard to undermine the credibility
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At 5:04 PM 11/29/96, Tom Walker wrote:
The rigour of definition and level of aggregation is relevant. The BLS data
Doug cited showed "non-economic" part-time work nearly doubling in 36 years
and "economic" part-time work staying flat. If the definition of economic
part-time work is so narrow
Having committed the venal sin of actually having read Rifkin's book as well
as Aronowitz DiFazio's, Yates' and several others I would second Michael's
opinion of Aronowitz Difazio's book. Rifkin's is more interesting than
AD's, but mostly because of the material he gleans from (and jazzes up)
Tom Walker wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote,
I just get irritated when Rifkin's stale idiocies are presented as
fresh advances in human thought.
I can sympathize with Doug's irritation. Rifkin adds nothing to the
discussion other than a popularizing zeal and a slick presentation. Rifkin
. .
The Nation October 14, 1996
As the prospects for Middle East peace fade away,
cynicism and suspicion take over.
MYTH OF THE 'PAX AMERICANA'
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From Afghanistan to the Mediterranean, it is now
possible to travel through
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